Baking oven



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BAKING ovEN Filed Feb. 27, 1929 2 sheets-sheet 2 Patented May 17, 19532 v UNITED sTATEs'PATENT OFFICE JOHN IOINTON, OFIPETERBOBOUGH, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOB T6 BAKER PERKINS 00mm INCORPORATED, OF'NE'W' YORK, N.

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This invention relates to baking ovens ,-of the type wherein the loaves of bread or the confectionery or other goods to be. baked, (all of which are hereinafter included in the term loaves), are carried on a continuous conveyor'in a circuitous course through the oven or baking chamber and Vpass during such transit between heating elements adapted to impart top and bottom heat to the loaves on said conveyor. For such heating elements the well lmown closed steam pipes or tubes generally known as Perkins tubes have been employed; also gas burners extending across the oven with or without an inclosing tube for each burner or row of burners.

It is also known to locate a series of burner tubes between top and bottom slabs of refractory material, and it has been proposed. to mount burner tubes (extending across and located at intervals throughout an oven) in metal channel members covered by metal slabs, slotted or otherwise, and adapted to act as heat accumulators by the impingement of the burner jets upon the metal with a view to aifording solid heat. In all these cases it has been the practice or intention to distribute or arrange for the dispersal of the source of heat more or less uniformly over the oven area. The object of this invention is to provide, while employing fewer heat sources, a very effective baking heat with economy in construction and oven maintenance and fuel consumption. v

- The invention consists in the provision of a localized and concentrated heat source enclosed within a tortuous chamber or passage formed in refractorymaterial of great heagt storage capacity and arranged so that the bulk of the intense heat developed is communicated to and stored in the refractory material to afford a solid heat zone.

Normally a plurality of heat storage elements as specified in the preceding'parag'raph are employed and the combustion gases from the several heat sources are confined in their transit through the tortuous passages or chambers and thereafter led into iues.

, By a localized and concentrated heat source is meant a burner device for oil or v runs.

gaseous fuel adapted to develop an intense heat in a comparatively small region or area tively close intervals throughoutfanoven.

In the accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a baking oven according to the invention and taken on the line 1-.1 of Fig. 3.

p Fig. 2 is a cross section of the oven taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and

y Fig. 3 is a sectional plan of the oven take on the line 3-3of Fig. 1.

v In carrying the invention into effect as shown, in the construction of an oven of the type having trays a depending or swinging from a continuous conveyor b moving in a circuitous course through the baking chamber, there are arranged between 'the straight ably extending across fromside to side ofA the baking chamber or interior of the oven and of a combined longitudinal extent equal to or'approximating that of the said straight The heating element below the lowest run may be located in the masonry of the oven as seen in Figure 1. The said elements are hollow or have chambers or passages therein lying in one plane and so arranged that the products ofthe combustion within such chambers of the oil or gaseous fuel and necessary air admitted thereto, are caused to take a circuitous course (as indicated in Figure 3) in order that the refractory material from which such elements are constructed shall efectually absorb heat from such products before they are discharged. The fuel burners are indicated 4by e, affording a localized intense source of heat at or towards the entrance end of the chamber or passage in the refractory element d, and the course of the gases is indicated by arrows in Figure 3 which also shows a restricted passage area adjacent the flame zone. The drawings show two different forms of baking elements. Those marked d consist of broad hollow slabs of refractory material aording great heat storage capacity, and those marked c consist' -receive the .iiues. It is convenient to employ a combination of parts as shown, butif` desired the elements ma be all of the same kind, that is tosay,all'ed. y

The heating elements may bearranged so that the elements din one layer are* op oslte the elements c in another or adacent ayer.

The exteriors of the baking e ements constitute the walls of the tunnels o1' passages for the conveyor-,with the swinging trays and the loaves therein, and such ba 'ng elements formed of refractory material which has absorbed heat from the combustion within them, constitute continuous heat radiating surfaces which provide what is known in the baking trade as a region of solid baking heat,

vas distinguished from flash 'or spot heat such as is obtained from burners or heating elements disposed at intervals throughout the baking chamber. Such solid baking heat is akin to that obtained from an oven of the stone sole or retort' type in which the baking heat is afforded by radiation from the previously heated floor, side and end walls and roof of the oven. By this invention there is obtained the recognized advantages of such solid baking heat with the continuous operation of the oven on baking service and' the expedition and economy associated with the use of a travelling conveyor whereb theloaves are automatically passed into an out of the oven. The invention further ensures economy in the construction and maintenance of the oven.

The baking elements may be adapted to extend throughout the curved portions of the conveyor, or where the latter pass round the guide wheels for the like, and other modifications may be made in the application of the invention to meet varying services or requirements.

' Whilst the invention has been exemplified by its application to ovens ofthe kind in which a continuous conveyor passes through the oven -or baking chamber 1n a circuitous course, the invention is not limited to ovens of this kind but is applicable to other ovens such as, for example, straight tunnel ovens.

source, whereby the. bulk of the heat devel-5 Having thus described my invention what v I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- -ters Patent isz-L LA baking oven wherein thegoods are carried on a continuous conveyor through the oven and pass between independent heating heat storage capacity and a section formed of material having less heat storage capacity, said sections enc osing a tortuous chamber enclosing a localized and concentrated heat 

